Abstract :
Figurative language is defined as a way to say something other
than the usual way, and more narrowly it is defined as a way to say one
thing and another meaning. This research analyze figurative language in
poetry written by sixth semester English students at Muhammadiyah
University of Metro. The objectives of the research were to describe
types and contextual meanings of figurative language used in poetry
written by students. Descriptive qualitative design was used to classify
and analyze the data. The techniques used in collecting the data were
assignment and documentation. Meanwhile, in analyzing the data, the
researchers applied qualitative descriptive.
This research found 46 sentences using figurative language
divided into 10 types comprises four similes, three metaphors, ten
hyperboles, eight personifications, four metonymies, four synecdoches,
four repetitions, one irony, seven paradoxes, and one litotes. It was found
that there are 46 figurative languages that have contextual meaniang
between the figurative language and the sentence.